Iphone Information and Chat Room Applications (App's)

The iPhone from Apple is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. Apple created the device during a secretive and unprecedented collaboration with AT&T Mobility, Cingular Wireless at the time, at an estimated development cost of US$150 million over thirty months.

The iPhone functions as a camera phone (also including text messaging and visual voicemail), a portable media player (equivalent to a video iPod), and an Internet client (with e-mail, web browsing, and Wi-Fi connectivity), using the phone's multi-touch screen to provide a virtual keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard.

The original iPhone was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007 before being marketed in Europe. The iPhone 3GS has improved performance, a camera with higher resolution and video capability, and voice control. It was released in the U.S., Canada and six European countries on June 19, 2009, in Australia and Japan on June 26, and saw international release in July and August 2009.

The interface is based around the home screen, a graphical list of available applications. By default, the Home screen contains the following icons: Messages (SMS and MMS messaging), Calendar, Photos, Camera, YouTube, Stocks, Maps (Google Maps), Weather, Voice Memos, Notes, Clock, Calculator, Settings, iTunes (store), App Store, and (on the iPhone 3GS only) Compass. iPhone applications normally run one at a time, although most functionality is still available when making a call or listening to music.

Internet access is available when the iPhone is connected to a local area Wi-Fi or a wide area GSM or EDGE network, both second-generation (2G) wireless data standards. The iPhone 3G introduced support for third-generation UMTS and HSDPA 3.6, but not HSUPA networks, and only the iPhone 3GS supports HSDPA 7.2. By default, the iPhone will ask to join newly discovered Wi-Fi networks and prompt for the password when required. Alternatively, it can join closed Wi-Fi networks manually. The iPhone 3G has a maximum download rate of 1.4 Mbps in the United States.

Safari is the iPhone's native web browser, and it displays pages similar to its Mac and Windows counterparts.

For text input, the iPhone implements a virtual keyboard on the touchscreen. It has automatic spell checking and correction, predictive word capabilities, and a dynamic dictionary that learns new words.

The iPhone also features an e-mail program that supports HTML e-mail, which enables the user to embed photos in an e-mail message. PDF, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint attachments to mail messages can be viewed on the phone.

The iPhone can enlarge text to make it more accessible for vision-impaired users, and can accommodate hearing-impaired users with closed captioning and external TTY devices. The iPhone 3GS also features white on black mode, VoiceOver (a screenreader), and zooming for impaired vision, and mono audio for limited hearing in one ear. Apple regularly publishes Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates which explicitly state compliance with the US regulation "Section 508".

The iPhone's operating system is designed to only run software that has an Apple-approved cryptographic signature. This restriction can be overcome by "jailbreaking" the phone, which involves replacing the iPhone's firmware with a slightly modified version that does not enforce the signature check.

Whether you are a talkative person or just chat occasionally, there are lots of chat applications for iPhone. The two main chat apps for iPhone are Apollo and MobileChat. On the webapps side, Meebo and Beejive are the two most popular.

iPhone chat applications (apps) include:

iPhone Chat Apps - AIM, BitchX, Fring, ICQ, IRCm, Irssi, iTalk, Siax, Siphon, Skype, and VoIPover3G

Web Chat Apps for iPhone - BeejiveIM, Heysan, Meebo (has no software to download and can use all 5 popular instant messengers (IMs) AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and Google talk), Mibbit, and mundo IM

Other iPhone Chat Apps:

LimeChat - IRC chat client for iPhone, manage links and chat easily on your phone.

Beejive IM - Lets you chat on Facebook, Live.com, Yahoo!, and Google.

Touchat - Similiar to a GTalk app for iPhone, you can also sketch your messages.

IM+ for iPhone - Chat on Twitter, GTalk, Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN

Colloquy - IRC chat client for iPhone. Find new friends and chat with existing ones on iPhone.

Ember - a CampFire client, create your own chat rooms and start group chats.

Agile Messenger - Manage your contacts more effectively.

FlowChat - IRC client for iPhone, upload and share photos easily.

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